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there had been any visitors during his absence. His wife told him of the elderly
gentleman and spoke kindly about him. Ishmael asked if he had said anything to her,
she told him that he had inquired about their well-being and that she had replied
everything was well. She also Ishmael the elderly gentleman had asked her to convey
his greetings of peace to him and said that he was to strengthen the threshold of his
house.

Ishmael smiled, and told his wife that the elderly gentleman was none other than his
father, Abraham and that she was the "threshold" he had ordered him to keep.

In the years that followed, Ishmael had twelve children, and it is from his son Kidar that
many Arabs are descended.

Raising the House of Allah

Time passed and the next time Prophet Abraham came to visit Ishmael, he found him
sitting under a large tree near the spring of Zamzam repairing his arrows. As soon as he
saw his father he stood up and they greeted each other affectionately with peace. After
the greetings, Abraham told his son that Allah had given him another command -- the